Love v. Breedlove
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from Washington. Tried below before Hon. John Alexander, Special District Judge. This is an appeal from a judgment in favor of appellee Breedlove for a town lot in the city of Brenham against appellant, who claimed the lot as her homestead. The conclusions of fact and of law found by the trial judge are as follows: “Sam Love and his wife Angelina Love, the defendant in this case,, owned a lot, which they occupied as a homestead, in the city of Brenham.
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Appeal from Washington. Tried below before Hon. John Alexander, Special District Judge. This is an appeal from a judgment in favor of appellee Breedlove for a town lot in the city of Brenham against appellant, who claimed the lot as her homestead. The conclusions of fact and of law found by the trial judge are as follows: “Sam Love and his wife Angelina Love, the defendant in this case,, owned a lot, which they occupied as a homestead, in the city of Brenham. On the 13 th of December, 1886, they, Love and wife Angelina, made an absolute warranty deed to one Scott Porter, said deed being…
1Opinion of the Court
STAYTON, Chief Justice.
Appellant the property in controversy to Scott Porter by a deed, executed in form and manner sufficient to convey the homestead, which recited consideration paid.
Appellee claims through a mortgage with power of sale executed by Scott Porter after appellant and her husband had conveyed to him.
Appellant now claims that the property was the homestead of herself and husband at the time the conveyance was made to Porter, and that *652the instrument through which this was done was understood by the parties to be only a mortgage.
That the property was homestead, and that appellant…
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